Threats and opportunities on a key monarch anniversary

February 8, 2016

An unlikely new group of monarch allies emerged in 2015: companies from throughout Minnesota's rapidly growing solar industry. It turns out, fields of ground-mounted solar panels can provide excellent habitat for monarchs and bees as well as song and game birds. .. Monarch scientist Karen Oberhauser is a professor in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota. MinnPost